On 2 March 2015 at 04:27, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Instead of saying "I hope I win the lottery" they may say, if they are >> > pedantic, "I hope I end up the version of me that wins the lottery". > > > If the lottery is tomorrow and they are pedantic they would say "I hope the > day after tomorrow the thing that remembers being me today remembers winning > the lottery yesterday", and their hope would be fulfilled. And if they are > pedantic they would also say "I fear that the day after tomorrow the thing > that remembers being me today remembers losing the lottery yesterday" and > their fear would be realized. But I don't think anybody is quite that > pedantic.
No, most people would just say "I hope I win the lottery", because being duplicated 100 times and having one copy win the lottery is subjectively the same as having a 1/100 chance of winning the lottery. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
